He built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls [of the ceiling]: he built [them] for it within, for an oracle, even for the most holy place.
1 Kings 6:17 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) The house, that is, the temple before [the oracle], was forty cubits [long]. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The [rest of the] house, that is, the temple in front of the Holy of Holies, was forty cubits long. American Standard Version (1901) And the house, that is, the temple before the oracle, was forty cubits long. Common English Bible In front of this, the main hall was sixty feet. Catholic Public Domain Version And the temple itself, before the doors of the oracle, was forty cubits. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the temple itself before the doors of the oracle was forty cubits long. |
He built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls [of the ceiling]: he built [them] for it within, for an oracle, even for the most holy place.
There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
The greater house he made a ceiling with fir wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains.
The breadth of the entrance was ten cubits; and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured the length of it, forty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits.